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especially pleased with them. Simply the qualification of being a learned  brāhmaṇa  is not sufficient to attract the Supreme Personality of Godhead. A  brāhmaṇa  must not only be well qualified according to the requirements stated in scriptures such as  Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā  and  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , but at the same time he must be a devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa. The vivid example is Sudāmā Vipra. He was a qualified  brāhmaṇa , unattached to all sorts of material sense enjoyment, and at the same time a great devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa. Lord Kṛṣṇa, the enjoyer of all sacrifices and penances, is very fond of a  brāhmaṇa  like Sudāmā Vipra, and we have seen by the actual behavior of Lord Kṛṣṇa how much He adores such a  brāhmaṇa . Therefore, the ideal stage of human perfection is to become a  brāhmaṇa-vaiṣṇava  like Sudāmā Vipra.
Sudāmā Vipra realized that although Lord Kṛṣṇa is unconquerable, He nevertheless agrees to be conquered by His devotees. He realized how kind Lord Kṛṣṇa was to him, and he was always in trance, constantly thinking of Kṛṣṇa. By such constant association with Lord Kṛṣṇa, whatever darkness of material contamination was remaining within his heart was completely cleared away, and very shortly he was transferred to the spiritual kingdom, which is the goal of all saintly persons in the perfectional stage of life. Śukadeva Gosvāmī has stated that all persons who hear this history of Sudāmā Vipra and Lord Kṛṣṇa will know how affectionate Lord Kṛṣṇa is to the  brāhmaṇa  devotees like Sudāmā. Therefore anyone who hears this history gradually becomes as qualified as Sudāmā Vipra, and he is thus transferred to the spiritual kingdom of Lord Kṛṣṇa.
Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the Second Volume, Twenty-sixth Chapter, of Kṛṣṇa, “The Brāhmaṇa Sudāmā Benedicted by Lord Kṛṣṇa.”